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Since 2002 we share content, promote emerging architects and initiate relevant projects. The results are published or shared through lectures with the interested audience.
Now it's time to enable our members to publish their own content on the wonderweb - wonderland's digital platform. This new platform will help us all to publish, share, follow, update, comment and connect information about all our activities.
Formats developed by wonderland with annual projects are presented on this platform through their own channel (see the left menu):
Blind Date - an interdisciplinary rendezvous with a stranger.
Project Space - an urban work shop with an international call.
Movies in wonderland - a pop up festival in the public space with architecture relevant movies.

importance of vacant shops

Even though shopping landscape changes frequently, it is the showcases of our cities, an eye catcher and the single shops are milestones. Functioning as the ‘face’ of the city, not only do shops attract visitors, but they also serve as a visual distraction for pedestrians. Nowadays however, many peripheral parts of our modern cities seem to be diseased by vacant shops, as a result of trading-down and shutting down the retails. As shop owners hope for new high paying tenants, shopping malls pop up around or even in city centres. That development threatens the ground floors of whole districts or even towns. As a result of high mobilisation of the population migrating out of the cities to live in the green surrounding, a sense of hollow emptiness has crept into town centres.

CALL FOR IDEAS: vacant shops solutions

Wonderland invites teams from around the world to submit new ideas and concepts to use empty shops at the inner city of Kaiserslautern, in Germany. Your vision should detect the potential of these spaces for the city and develop exemplary alternative use concepts for vacant shops, enriching their original purpose. Your approach should generate an improvement for urban society and space. Your ideas should give an impulse to the local situation and help ignite a debate while generating transferable concepts.

Crucial questions that might help inspire you in finding a new and unique vision are as follows:

• Which possible uses do these spaces have within the urban context?
• How can their potential be realized?
• What kind of concept could be developed for temporary and permanent occupation?
• What kind of (positive) effect would the usage of these spaces have on its inhabitants, urban space and the society in general?
• What could be the added value?

Background of Project Space

In 2011, Project Spaces will continue to follow the goal of finding sustainable and social development strategies through on-site workshops, lectures and open public discussions, leading to practices in new and effective cross-border co-operation throughout Europe. Participants will have the chance of presenting their visions to an interested audience consisting of citizens, real estate representatives, landlords, potential users, and representatives of municipalities, architects, and representatives of education as well as of research centres.

about this Call for ideas

Send us your idea referring to this topic in form of one significant image and a written description (max. 2.000 characters) per e-mail. A jury formed by wonderland board members and co-operation partners will select the 3 most interesting ideas for this Project Space. The winners will be supported with adequate travel compensation. The kick-off lecture and the final presentation are public events, to which representatives of local and international
media will be invited. Workshop results will be published on the web and on wonderland’s publications, such as the annual report. Participants will also receive the unique opportunity of becoming a wonderland member for the next two years for free and benefit from our
services.

Apply now and test your ideas!

Interested? Please register on www.wonderland.cx and submit your entry by e-mail as soon as possible. The deadline date for submissions is the 26th of June 2011. One of the vacant spaces in the city is now used as Architekturgalerie Kaiserslautern and will host the workshop. As a result of the Project Space Kaiserslautern, an exhibition or even a temporary realisation of affordable idea(s) can follow. The final decision will be made collectively on site, based on the outcome of the workshop. As a low-budget event, the Project Spaces biggest strength is the high creativity and motivation of the participating teams.

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A grass roots Urban Lab offering international input on a local level. Project Space offers urban specialist an on-site workshop to test their ideas at the same time as an international exchange opportunity to local communities. Project Space has been held in big and small cities like Vienna (AT), Budapest (HU), Venice (IT), Kaiserslautern (DE), Cluj (RO), Paris (FR), Mannheim (DE) and Amsterdam (NL) and many more. Check for more details the project space stream on this page. The Project Space team leaders are currently Daniela Patti, Levente Polyak and Roland Krebs.
If you would like to suggest a PROJECT SPACE in your city please contact us.

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